Undertale: Aleph Null

One Last Time

The voice boomed through the area and within my own head. For a second I thought it was just in my head, but I looked up at Sans to see him looking back to where his pawn had fallen.

The surroundings were frozen over, and the debris itself floating in mid-air. But then there he was, walking out of the paranormal plain of the house, looking untouched. He was walking slowly, head down, before lifting it up, left eye closed in a wink, his right blasting out an ethereal white light, cocky smile returning. "But I guess with the power of God, trivial things like whether or not the words were spoken aloud don't really matter, huh?"

Even though he was far away, his voice meeting to me instantly, softer than before, but still carrying an ominous power and threatening affectation. He was alive! But how? Was he the one making me remember all of the things he's said?

He opened his other eye, with the same effect as the other, looking more serious. "Nah, that was all you. I'm almost flattered. But I'm not done talking to you yet, so sit tight."

But... I-. I didn't even know how to respond. I had been frozen in my place since I saw him, and I still can't will myself to move. What's wrong with me?

I was half expecting him to answer my question, but instead he just sat there, like he was waiting me to finish for him to speak. But not to me; he looked up at Sans and narrowed his eyes. "You on the other hand."

Before he could say any more, Sans waved his arms around him, creating a giant hollow sphere of flame, hiding himself.

Without speaking, the pawn lifted up his right hand slowly up to his chin, flicking his hand and the rest of his arm upward, with enough power to create a vertical spiral of wind, destroying both Sans' sphere and the fire keeping him up.

That power...

Sans fell to the ground twenty feet away from me, facing his pawn. I was standing a little to the right of him, back facing the side of Mt. Ebott. Again, saying nothing, the man started to crouch down. I thought he was about to fall over before he vanished. The only thing I could pick up was the sound of an earth-shaking impact, followed by the sound of the ground compressing under the reverse pressure of it. All of that before my eyes could even detect a change, finally seeing the man where Sans once stood, floating above a crater, Sans nowhere to be seen.

Not a second passes before I hear an object plummet into the side of the mountain behind me, feeling the impact carried through the ground.

How...?

I watched in stunned horror as the man levitated to solid ground, and began to walk closer to me. The silence only alleviated with the crashing of rubble falling down the mountain, my vision getting clouded and quickly blocked out by the dust from the impact. As I tried to force myself to move, only able to see the dark cloud in front of me, I saw something else. It was almost unnoticed, but a little speck of dust, much whiter than the others, was floating within the cloud of black.

Sans...

"You have an interesting chemistry with this world and how you affect those living in it. Using the power you were given, to bring the world back from the brink to whenever you please as long as you have the foresight to 'save' it, yet there's still things out of place," he began, but thankfully now sounding much further away that I had expected.

I have to do something. Anything. I'm not going to end up like Sans. But how could I combat that much power?

"You shatter the timeline, piecing it back together with little reasoning. People remembering what they shouldn't, having the neural input of actions that never took place with no memories to validate their knowledge they have," he continued. He's getting closer.